Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - Public lands |
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... plat of survey and the warrants or certified copies of warrants were to be filed in the General Land Office in the same manner as formerly provided by the act of 1804. This was the application of the old and familiar method of the new ...
... plat of survey and the warrants or certified copies of warrants were to be filed in the General Land Office in the same manner as formerly provided by the act of 1804. This was the application of the old and familiar method of the new ...
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... plat of survey was filed in your office March 14 , 1881 . Had Mrs. Walker's husband made entry of the land she would have been entitled to credit for residence in making final proof back to date of settlement ; but as party to the ...
... plat of survey was filed in your office March 14 , 1881 . Had Mrs. Walker's husband made entry of the land she would have been entitled to credit for residence in making final proof back to date of settlement ; but as party to the ...
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... plat of sur- vey also be refunded . On examination of the official plat of survey in this office I find that there is quite a difference between said plat and the map of coast sur- vey filed by Mr. Dewhurst ; but in view of the fact ...
... plat of sur- vey also be refunded . On examination of the official plat of survey in this office I find that there is quite a difference between said plat and the map of coast sur- vey filed by Mr. Dewhurst ; but in view of the fact ...
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... plat is on file , the application fails . Commissioner McFarland to register and receiver , Huron , Dakota , Decem- ber 16 , 1882 . I am in receipt of your letters of October 26 and November 24 last , transmitting appeals of Messrs ...
... plat is on file , the application fails . Commissioner McFarland to register and receiver , Huron , Dakota , Decem- ber 16 , 1882 . I am in receipt of your letters of October 26 and November 24 last , transmitting appeals of Messrs ...
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... for the reason hereinbefore stated , to wit , the affidavits having been executed prior to the filing of the plats in the local office . AMENDMENT - ERROR IN PLAT - OCCUPANCY . BENNETT v 158 DECISIONS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LANDS .
... for the reason hereinbefore stated , to wit , the affidavits having been executed prior to the filing of the plats in the local office . AMENDMENT - ERROR IN PLAT - OCCUPANCY . BENNETT v 158 DECISIONS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LANDS .
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Page 558 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 663 - Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered...
Page 541 - ... and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims ; and upon failure to file the proper notice, or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 395 - ... but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof granted as aforesaid, or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same...
Page 561 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 42 - ... infant child or children ; and the executor, administrator, or guardian may, at any time within two years after the death of the surviving parent, and in accordance with the laws of the state in which such children...
Page 383 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 558 - The locators of all mining locations heretofore made or which shall hereafter be made, on any mineral vein, lode or ledge, situated on the public domain, their heirs and assigns, where no adverse claim exists on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, so long as they comply with the laws of the United States...
Page 688 - That the three preceding sections shall be held to authorize only one entry by the same person or association of persons; and no association of persons, any member of which shall have taken the benefit of such sections, either as an individual or as a member of any other association, shall enter or hold any other lands under the provisions thereof...
Page 633 - That when the lands in the said Territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said Territory shall be and the same are hereby reserved for the purpose of being applied to schools in said Territory, and in the States and Territories hereafter to be erected out of the same.